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25 letters of Roderick Watson Kerr to George M Thomson.
Concerning the Porpoise Press.
With typescript copies annotated by Thomson.
Album containing portraits of Sir Walter Scott, with papers of and concerning him.
Andrew Symson, "A letter from Mr Andrew Symson to William Forbes" (1706), with extensive annotations.
Annotated copy of J L Campbell and Francis Collinson, "Hebridean Folksongs" (1969).
With five letters, 1979, of Campbell to Collinson.
Annotated copy of May Sinclair, "A Defence of Idealism" (1917).
Includes three letters, 1923-1924, of the author to W J Jupp and Jupp`s annotations and presentation note, 1925, to J Ramsay MacDonald.
Anonymous letter to Thomas Carlyle, with annotations by the recipient.
Author's interleaved proof copy of ‘Occasional verses, translations and imitations’ by Sylvester Douglas, Baron Glenbervie; with letters and papers to Glenbervie formerly loosely inserted therein.
Barbara Balfour-Melville, "The Balfours of Pilrig" (1907), with interleavings annotated by Sir Graham Balfour.
With photographs and letters including five, 1870, 1887-1892, of Robert L Stevenson, and two, 1859, 1869, of Florence Nightingale.
Copy of ‘Memoirs of the Secret Services of John Macky (London, 1733) with manuscript annotations.
Copy of Robert Law, "Memorials" (Edinburgh, 1818), with annotations by editor Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe.
Includes letters of James Ballantyne to Sharpe concerning the printing of "Memorials".
Five volumes of newspaper cuttings with annotations by James Logie Robertson and a letter of George Fothergill to Robertson.
‘James Hogg’ by Sir George Douglas (Edinburgh, 1899), with a few annotations by the author.
A letter, 1920, to George Douglas from Adam Scott, concerning portraits of Hogg, and a copy of a letter of Hogg, 1835, are inserted.
Letter of George Chalmers to Robert Cadell.
Concerns Chalmers` work on later volumes of "Caledonia", his wish to see a print of the author in the last volume and on his possible diversion by his life of David I, a move opposed by Cadell in a note on the letter.
Letters of John D Fergusson to Nigel McIsaac.
With letter of McIsaac concerning Ferguson, letters of Margaret Morris and annotated catalogues of Ferguson`s work.
Letters of literary and historical figures.
This accession comprises:
letter, 1837, of Lady Burnett to Mr Banting;
letter, 1845, of Thomas Chalmers to Sir David Brewster;
letter, 1857, of William Baring, Lord Ashburton, after the death of his wife, to Thomas Carlyle;
letter, 1876, of Ellen Wood to Ann Sansome;
letter, undated, of Adelaide Drummond to Mr Gaskell.
Manuscript containing the letter of Prester John, and other works.
Manuscript material from the 5th Earl of Rosebery's library at the Durdans, Epsom.
Manuscript of Geoffrey Keating’s ‘History of Ireland’ written by the scribe Sémus Ó Gribín.
Marked proof, undated, of "Carmina Gadelica", corrected by J C Watson and William Matheson.
With marked proof, undated, of J L Campbell, "Edward Lhuyd in the Scottish Highlands", corrected by Angus Matheson, with letters, 1962, of Campbell to Matheson on the book.
Material collected by Captain George Sitwell Campbell Swinton, Lyon King of Arms, supplementary to the work of his father, Archibald Campbell Swinton of Kimmerghame, ‘The Swintons of that Ilk and their Cadets’.
Papers concerning the Keiths, Earls Marischal.
Papers of Sir Robert H Scott.
Includes a letter to his mother-in-law, 1942, photograph albums, 1924-1934, records of his Lord Lieutenancy of Peebles-shire/Tweeddale, 1968-1980, and an annotated copy of "Intisari" (Research Journal of Wider Malaysia).
Photocopy and annotated transcript of letters of Samuel Brown to Samuel Smiles.
‘Principles of the criminal law of Scotland’ (Edinburgh, 1832) and ‘Practice of the criminal law of Scotland’ (Edinburgh, 1833) by Sir Archibald Alison; with letters of William Blackwood, the publisher, and a copy of one reply by Alison.
Proof copy of 'Poor things', by Alasdair Gray, with a related letter.
A heavily annotated paperback proof of 'Poor things', donated by Alasdair Gray to Mark Fleming for auction at a Scotland in Europe fundraising event, with an accompanying letter explaining the donation.